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By Mitchell McCluskey, Caitlin Hu and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Chris Hipkins, New Zealand’s education minister, is bidding to replace Jacinda…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Scientists were able to create a virtual lightning rod using a large, powerful laser atop a mountain in Switzerland,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN Climate change is sending the world hurtling towards a series of catastrophic tipping points, which risk setting off feedback…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX fired a new GPS satellite into orbit on behalf of the US military on Wednesday, continuing an effort to bolster the…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Paleontologists working in central India have made a rare discovery — a fossilized dinosaur hatchery with 92 nests and 256 eggs…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN As humans fiddle with the planet’s thermostat, scientists are piecing together Greenland’s history by drilling ice…

By Jorge Engels, Philip Wang and Emma Tucker, CNN Romanian authorities said they have seized nearly $4 million worth of assets belonging to…

By Hadas Gold, Michael Schwartz and Amir Tal, CNN Tens of thousands of people protested in Tel Aviv Saturday night against Israeli Prime Minister…

By Katie Hunt, CNN A defunct NASA satellite has fallen back to Earth after 38 years orbiting the planet. The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, known…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Welcome to a new year, where fresh wonder already awaits. Rome has often been called the Eternal City. Ancient Romans took…

By Laura Paddison, CNN Glaciers are set to lose substantially more ice and contribute more to sea level rise than current scientific estimates…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Walter Cunningham, a retired NASA astronaut and pilot of the first crewed flight in the space agency’s famed Apollo…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The new year kicks off with the Quadrantids, one of 12 annual meteor showers. The celestial event is typically among the…

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN For the love of all things sacred, please stop saying “GOAT” — unless you are shouting about a herd of…

By Delia Gallagher, Niamh Kennedy and Emma Tucker, CNN Former Pope Benedict XVI, who died Saturday in a monastery in the Vatican at the age of 95,…

By Kendall Trammell, CNN Get out of your East Coast mentality, America. Not everyone starts their New Year when you do. The Pacific Island nations of…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Mars may seem like a dry, desolate place, but the red planet transforms into an otherworldly wonderland in winter,…

By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN This year, humankind glimpsed the universe in ways that were never before possible, and space missions…

By Marcia Reverdosa, Maija-Liisa Ehlinger and Heather Chen, CNN The son and daughter of Brazilian football legend Pelé have taken to Instagram to…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Officials at NASA and Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, are working to decide how to bring home several people at the…

By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN The International Space Station got its second solar power boost in a month as two NASA astronauts…

By Danya Gainor, CNN The National Marine Aquarium, the largest display for sea life in the United Kingdom, has officially welcomed Heidi, an olive…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN After making groundbreaking discoveries about the mysterious interior of the red planet, the InSight lander’s mission…

By Katie Hunt, CNN The fast-expanding field of ancient DNA, formally known as paleogenetics, came of age in 2022, earning its pioneering scientist…

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Tavleen Tarrant and Jay Croft, CNN Five people were killed in a shooting at a condominium in a Toronto suburb Sunday night,…

By Heather Chen, Lindsay Isaac and Jennifer Hauser, CNN One of Iran’s best-known actresses has been arrested days after she criticized the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Some of our favorite space missions are closing out the year in a big way. Artemis I made a literal splash(down) when it…

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN The global energy crisis caused by Russia’s war on Ukraine has pushed global demand for coal — the most…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft slammed into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos, the impact…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The world’s largest whales are more than just astonishing creatures. Much like the ocean, soil and forests, whales can…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft is gearing up for the first of a series of close encounters with the most volcanic place in the solar…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A towering whirlwind of dust passed right over the Perseverance rover as it explored the site of an ancient lake on Mars…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN The best chance to see the strongest meteor shower of the year is on its way this week. The Geminids, known for bright,…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN The Artemis I mission — a 25½-day uncrewed test flight around the moon meant to pave the way for future astronaut missions…

Story by Reuters The effects of human activity from climate change to pollution are “devastating” marine life, with nearly a tenth of…

By Scottie Andrew, CNN What’s in a swear? The world’s filthiest words typically refer to something vulgar or taboo, for one. But…